What is The Guild of Master Craftsmen...

For over 30 years The Guild of Master Craftsmen has represented many different trades and professions, promoting and supporting excellence. To the trade and public alike, the Guild’s emblem and Coat of Arms represent skill, integrity, quality and service – in all professionalism.

Guild members come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Some are quite unusual, such as craftsmen in wrought iron, stained glass or thatch, others are traditional builders, plumbers or electricians. A growing number are involved in newer industries such as information technology and in the retail and service sector. The one thing they have in common is their commitment to work with skill and integrity.

The Guild encourages members to strive for excellence and monitors standards to ensure that its principles are being maintained.

Why Choose a Guild Member ?

You can choose a member of the Guild of Master Craftsmen confident that you will receive the best possible service, workmanship and top quality products.

The Guild’s stringent entry criteria ensure that only those companies who meet the requirements are awarded membership, which is by no means automatic.

Members are required to prove that they have earned the right to be called master craftsmen - through the quality of their work, their commitment to customer care and the level of service they provide. Once accepted into membership they are required to maintain the Aims and Objectives of the Guild. Should they fail to do so their membership will be terminated.

Whilst The Guild is not a consumer organisation it is committed to pursue the interests of the consumer through careful membership selection and its proven procedure for conciliation and mediation, in the unlikely event there is a dispute with a member.

Aims & Objectives

1 To bring together all skilled people engaged in a craft, art, trade, profession or vocation in order to safeguard the interests of craftsmen and the public.

2 To ensure that the minimum qualifications for membership preserve the high standards of The Guild by excluding the unskilled.

3 To publicise these high standards through national and local media, thus creating public awareness of the ideals and aims of The Guild and of its' members.

4 To promote to the public the trading assets of the members, their honour, professional expertise and integrity, their high standards and the value for money which they offer.

5 To provide clear identification and recognition for members to enable the public to distinguish them from the unskilled who pass themselves off as craftsmen, and so increasingly to attract and direct work to members of The Guild.

6 To assist all members, and to protect them against the growing menace and the devaluing and damaging activities of the unskilled, against bureaucratic discrimination, against penal taxation and adverse legislation. Equally to protect the public by instilling among members a greater sense of responsibility, making members aware of the national importance of the services they render, monitoring these standards to ensure that The Guild's high standards are being maintained, and by encouraging members always to strive for excellence.

7 To encourage an interchange of views among members, to endeavour to unite these views and to bring them to the attention of the Government and local authorities in order to safeguard the livelihood and welfare of the members and their dependants.

8 To constitute a pressure group to seek the support of one or more Members of Parliament to make sure that someone speaks up for the interests of Guild members where it matters most.

9 To promote research within the craft, trade, art, profession or vocation in which members are engaged, thus benefitting both members and the public.

10 To foster learning among apprentices and students in order to perpetuate the survival and success of their particular craft.

11 To promote sponsorship of The Guild by persons, firms and organisations, whether by financial support, by endorsement of the activities of The Guild or by patronage.

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